I Quotes
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“I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.”
Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of
“I will not fail: God is always victorious.”
“I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.”
“I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“I will not fight you,” Princess Meria told Rhaenys, “nor will I kneel to you. Dorne has no king. Tell your brother that.”
“I shall,” Rhaenys replied, “but we will come again, Princess, and the next time we shall come with fire and blood.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them.”
“I will not fly an airline again that cancels my airline ticket at the airport gate for a silly reason.”
“I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“I will not forgive. I will inflict and invite suffering-all our lives. As Bunni grows up she'll hear from her mother that her father is cruel,capricious, tyrannical person. Bunni won't love me. Everyone will take her side, because she is a woman, I won't be able to say a thing, ever. I will have to keep my mouth shut my entire life. I must maintain my wife's honour. And we call women the weaker sex! How deadly is the strength of frailty, and men-if they're gentlemen- how incredibly helpless!”
Source: It Rained All Night
“I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].”
“I will not get on a train with people I have assessed as harassing me.”
“I will not give any explanation now. You are free to think whatever you want to.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I will not give or back off from my path.”
“I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.”
“I will not give up my dream for someone's dream.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.”
“I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.”
Source: Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
“I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.”
“I will not go back. I may stumble, but I will not fall.”
Source: Dark Touch
“I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.”
“I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.”
“I will not go into an elevator with anyone I have assessed as being a risk to me.”
“I will not go into detail but the screw put up a little bit of a resistance, fair play to him, but we were so desperate for the drugs in her medical bag that nothing was going to stop us getting at them. That is what happened, we got the bag of drugs from her hand. I can tell you, we were like two tramps round a bag of chips in a bin.”
Source: Scottish Hard Bastards
“I will not go on a blind date.”
“I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.”
Source: Just One Wish
“I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.”
Source: Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions
“I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming . . . and a little mad.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.”
“I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“I will not hate you, of course i will not say : goodbye.
But I will not forgive you, so i forget better.”
“I will not have a relationship with a lady that does not own her own home.”
“I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse
“I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.”
“I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.”
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
“I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.”
“I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.”
Source: Collected Works
“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”
“I will not hesitate. Not for a second.”
“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints”
Source: THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION
“I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.”
“I will not ignore you. l will just close your chapter like you were never part of the story.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.”
Source: The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: The sleeping prince. Separate tables. Variation on a theme. Ross. Heart to heart
“I will not interfere with the courts at all. For now,[William] Ruto is a political necessity, but you know in politics we do have blind loyalties and if we are to win this battle, we have to use all options available.”
“I will not join any club who will take me as a member.”
“I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.”
“I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings